William (Will) Glenn and Annie Mae Jackson Jones


Will Jones (born June 9, 1877, died May 27, 1942) was raised on a farm located on what is now Morrison Parkway and the Honda building. He married Annie Mae Jackson on November 27, 1910. Will and his brother, Major Harrison Jones, purchased a store on the corner of South Main St. that later became the first Louie E. Jones funeral home. Restaurants were later located there. They purchased it for $1600. They ran this general mercantile store until Harrison died in 1918.

Will continued running the store until about 1927 when the big depression closed him down. He bought out a grocery store from Epp Moore on the corner across from the old Milton County Courthouse. At lunch he sold hot dogs, egg, ham and cheese sandwiches which he cooked on a four burner kerosene stove. He had no running water so he carried it in a bucket from Brady's service station which was across the street from the store. He sold out in 1941 due to ill health and passed away on May 27, 1942.

Annie May Jackson was born on a farm on Kimball Bridge Road on June 15, 1889. She graduated from high school in Lawrenceville while living with relatives. After this she taught for a while then later attending Georgia Normal School in Athens. May finally got her degree after attending summer school at Georgia and Oglethorpe. Her teaching career brought her to schools in Crabapple, Midway, Morgan Falls and then Newtown Elementary. She retired from Fulton County Schools while at Newtown. After retiring in Fulton County May taught two years in Cobb County.

She was a great flower lover and spent a great deal of time in her garden until her sudden death on October 6, 1961.

George Edward Jones, was born on March 5, 1921, in the house at 50 South Main St. Preceding George were twin boys who died at birth and another brother who only lived three days. I attended Milton high school, Abraham Baldwin College and graduated at the University of Georgia. I joined the US Marines at Georgia in March 1942 and was called up in July to attend both O.C. Class and Reserve Officers Class at Quantico, Virginia, as a second lieutenant. I was immediately sent to the South Pacific to the following islands, Samoa, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Guadalcanal and Peleliu. Most of this time was with a base or field depot. Overseas time was 32 months. After discharge from the service I worked as a training officer and rehabilitation with blinded and severely disabled veterans. But the VA was downsized and I transferred to the Alpharetta Post Office as a rural carrier and retired on February the 28th 1977, after 34-1/2 years federal service. I married Rachel Conner on September the 28th 1947, We had one daughter, Janice Hazel Jones. She suffered about all her life with asthma and passed away on January the 23, 1966, at age 11. George Jones.


Martha Jones Chester tells a story about her Cousin George. He was fairly rambunctious and required many switchings from his Mother who made him cut a switch from a peach tree in his yard. George thought his Mother taught all those bad kids at school and took it out on him when she came home. One day he had had enough. He cut down that peach tree and drug it away
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